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Monday, February 12. 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Hawks trim Buffs
By Pamela Peck Assistant Sports Editor
The Kansas Jayhawks, alias Cardiac Kids, again displayed a daring and dangerous style of basketball, Saturday, as they skimmed past the Colorado Buffaloes, 75-72, in Boulder.
Coach Owens said that Boulder's high altitude, dreaded by some athletes, wasn't a game factor.
More amazing is the fact that five of the Jayhawks' last six encounters have been decided in the waning seconds. They defeated Iowa State by one, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State each by two and lost to Missouri by one point, all prior to the Colorado contest.
"The altitude didn't bother our boys a bit," Owens said, "but there were a couple of times I thought I was going to need oxygen."
The KU-CU clash looked at first like it might be a pushover for the Hawks, who held a 10 point lead midway in the first half. However, Colorado chipped away at the Kansas lead, and had pulled to within three points, 40-37, at halftime.
With the victory at Boulder, coach Ted Owens' crew climbed to within a half game of the top spot in Big Eight Conference standings. They raised their overall season record to 14-5, and brought their conference mark to 5-2.
Kansas, bothered by the fullcourt man-to-man press used by CU for the first time this season, encountered a fired-up group of Buffalooes during the second half.
The Jayhawks, committing a series of near-tragic errors, saw the Buffs cut the score to 73-72, on a close-in shot by Chuck Williams with 1:46 remaining.
KU had held a six point lead with 2:32 left, then misfortunes began to pile up. CU's Pat Frink converted one of two free throws, then the ball was stolen from Vernon Vanoy and Frink netted a two-pointer, making the score 73-70 with the clock showing 2:10. Colorado grabbed the ball again and Williams
connected, pulling the Buins to within one, 73-72.
Against a background of 4,900 howling Colorado fans, Kansas managed to stall until the 30 second mark. JoJo White tried to pass in to Bruce Sloan and Colorado nabbed the deflected ball and immediately called time-out.
Frink, the Buffs' leading scorer with 32 points, missed the shot that could have given his last place team the upset victory.
Colorado elected to play for one last shot, taken by Frink with five seconds remaining. The ball hit the rim and bounced away. Phil Harmon claimed the rebound and was fouled by Frink with one second remaining. Harmon calmly converted both charity tosses.
After the game, the aggressive Frink, never a favorite of Kansas fans, charged that he was hit from behind as he attempted his final fielder. He said-teammate Kermit McMurry had screened for him and that a Kansas player had knocked McMurray into him. No foul was called by either of the officials.
Frink was Colorado's only scoring threat. The Buffaloes couldn't cut mustard at the freeworth line, where they hit only 12 of 26. On the other hand, Kansas displayed a balanced scoring attack, hitting 51 per cent from the field and 23 of 30 freetrows. White lead the Hawks with 21 points. Nash and
Kansas committed 21 turnovers and Owens said his team showed a lack of aggressiveness.
Bohnenstiehl each scored 14 and Sloan tallied 12.
"We relax rather than charge when we get ahead. We got out in front in this game but it was Colorado instead of us that got aggressive. We're going to have to keep working harder in practice to develop our aggressiveness."
The Jayhawks' next outing will be a showdown with league leading Nebraska, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb.17, in Allen Field House.
The Kansas track team, making its first outing of the season against top - flight competition Saturday won four events and placed in several others at the Michigan State Relays in East Lansing.
Kansas track team runs well at Michigan State
KU's world record miler, Jim Ryun, tired after a 3:57.5 mile victory at Madison Square Garden Friday night and only three hours sleep, won the open mile at Michigan State with a comparatively slow time of 4:03.4.
seconds. Ken Gaines' 23 feet $ \frac{1}{4} $ inch leap in the long jump and a 16 foot pole vault by Bob Steinhoff accounted for KU's other two first places.
KU-CU box score
George Byers won the 70-year low hurdles in a fast time of 7.8
**COLORADO (72)**
Rebish 2 2-3 3P
McMurry 4 0-0 8
Williams 4 1-4 9
Frink 14 4-11 32
Tope 4 1 2 9
Hypk 1 3-5 5
Kern 1 0-0 5
Hutchinson 0 0-0 0
Seely 0 1-1 1
Smith 0 0-0 0
"The meet indicated we have a good team but we've got a long ways to go and a lot of work to do before the Big Eight indoor championships," Bob Timmons, head Jayhawk track coach, said after the meet, which was not scored on a team basis.
"We need to do some experimenting on where we can best use our runners," he said.
TOTALS 30 12-26 72
**KANSAS (75)**
Bohnenstiehl 5 4-5 14
Loan 5 4-6 12
White 6 2-3 14
White 8 5-7 21
Bradshaw 1 2-3 4
Vanoy 0 2-4 4
Harmon 2 2-2 6
Douglas 0 0-0 0
TOTALS ... 26 23-30 75
Fouled out: Colorado, Tope
Colorado 37 35-72
Kansas 40 35-75
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